HL Deb 23 July 1986 vol 479 cc372-4WA
Lord Renton

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What expenditure levels he has determined in respect of 1987–88 for the joint police and fire and civil defence authorities in the metropolitan areas and the London Fire and Civil Defence Authority.

Lord Glenarthur

For these authorities, which under the Local Government Act 1985 are, for three years, deemed to have been designated, expenditure levels are as follows:

Police £ million
Greater Manchester 89.121
Merseyside 62.047
South Yorkshire 36.726
West Midlands 81.402
West Yorkshire 66.117
Northumbria 45.542

Fire Civil and Defence

These figures comprise:—
Fire and Civil Defence £ million Fire £ million Civil Defence £ million
Greater Manchester 43.312 43.226 0.086
Merseyside 29.284 29.201 0.083
South Yorkshire 20.681 20.606 0.075
Tyne and Wear 20.989 20.915 0.074
West Yorkshire 33.788 33.702 0.086
West Midlands 39.523 39.436 0.087
London 156.348 156.020 0.328

The above figures are net of receipts and pension contributions, and, for police and civil defence, of specific grant. For police the figures assume that police grant in 1987–88 will remain at 51 per cent.

Formal notice of their expenditure levels has today been sent to each of the authorities together with advice on the procedure for applying for redetermination of the expenditure levels.